Metadata for BI Solutions in the Microsoft stack

You know, today Microsoft doesn’t have a solution to handle metadata of a BI Solution. Really, they don’t have nothing to handle a single layer of the architecture like the Data Warehouse.

In a (how much near?) future this gap could be filled by using Oslo. Yes, Oslo is not a solution by itself, it’s a platform, but studying it I see that it is the more natural way to produce a very well integrated metadata solution.

What do you think about it? Is someone already working on this? If not, I would like to know the reasons…

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